Root Resorption
Thursday, April 24th, 2008By: MJ
Root Resorption is the breakdown of the root structure of the tooth. A subsequent loss of the structure follows because that part of the tooth is being attacked by living body cells. After it extends to the whole tooth structure, it is then called tooth resorption.
The normal causes of root resorption include the wearing of braces. The roots experience this because they were moved at too fast a speed and at too little a time span while the patient was wearing braces.
Other aetiological factors are reimplantation, trauma, pressure from adjacent unerupted teeth, and tumors both odontogenic and non-odontogenic.
